Hamid Abu Ar’ar
Ar’ara
“On the morning of October 7th, my wife, my baby, and I were driving in our car. When we got to Ma’on Junction eight motorcycles appeared and started shooting at us. My wife, Fatma told me: ‘Hamid, I can’t feel my leg.’ I told her: ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of God’, She died in the car. I leaned her car seat back and closed her eyes.
My baby who was sitting in the back of the car was hit by shrapnel on his shoulder. I realized that we had to escape and find shelter because the area was swarming with terrorists. I spotted a big electric cabinet on the side of the road so I took my baby with me and ran to hide inside it.
After five hours, four Hamas terrorists appeared, and from all places they decided to hide at the back of the electric cabinet I was hiding with my baby. Suddenly, I heard Hebrew from across the way. I looked through the opening of the electric cabinet and I saw IDF soldiers. I heard the Hamas terrorists arguing among themselves when to strike the approaching soldiers.
I heard one of the Hamas terrorists saying: ‘Let them advance six or seven more meters and will kill them all.’
I told myself: ‘Hamid, you have to make a snap decision’. I grabbed my baby, opened the electric cabinet doors, and ran toward the soldiers. I alarmed the soldiers that they were walking straight into an ambush!
If they had advanced five more meters, they would all have been shot dead on the spot. No question about it. It was a miracle that me and my baby survived and that the soldiers were saved.
Does the terrorist know who they killed?
A mother of nine children.
My eldest son is eight and a half years old and my youngest is still an infant. I don’t know how I will cope with this tragedy. I’m trying to convince myself that I will get through this but I still don’t know how.
There is no meaning to this.
They killed a mother, a devoted Muslim wearing a hijab. A mother of four daughters who studies the Quran, while they don’t know the Quran. Which Islam are we talking about? Our Islam, my friends, does not preach this.
Our Islam is the opposite of what the terrorists have done.
We have to make a change in this country. Everyone who lives in this country must be one. Arabs, Jews. We must be one unit. We cannot let anyone infect us with hate.”